On p. 8:
Torrek and his glider pilot, Vilyan, are tattooed with the blue symbol of Sea Bear Lodge (Sea Bear?);
there is not only a Skara River but also a Skara Man's Hat mountain and a Fenga Fjord;
a "kraka" (flying kraken?) nests on the mountain and takes livestock and small children;
Torrek's remembers only the last five years of his life;
Vilyan invokes "Ellevil and the Moon Lady."
We know lunar goddesses and a Moon Woman. Ellevil sounds familiar: Elves, Elrond, eldila and El (also here).
I am out of here.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The idea of a "sea bear" is another hint that "Memory" is not meant to be our planet Earth, but another world settled by humans. Hmmm, an animal resembling a bear which had "reversed evolved," like whales, from being land animals into sea animals?
Sean
Polar bears are on the path to becoming sea animals. That *could* put the story on a future earth.
Kaor, Jim!
I am not quite so sure. Except for having white fur, polar bears strike me as being the same as grizzly bears. I think polar bears, if they had to, could survive on land as well as ordinary grizzly bears.
Ad astra! Sean
It's true that polar and grizzly bears can still interbreed, and polar bears still spend a lot of time on land. So polar bears moving into the sea is a trend that has barely started & could easily reverse.
Kaor, Jim!
And both types of grizzlies are equally mean, bad tempered, and aggressive apex predator ursines!
Ad astra! Sean
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